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Lionsgate didn’t show off Rambo: Last Blood or give a title to Jay Roach’s Roger Ailes movie, but they did show off Rian Johnson’s Thanksgiving American whodunit Knives Out which is kinetic and fantastic. The pic follows a dysfunctional family in suspect.
Lots of Knives in the trailer of course, overcast skies, old…

The sci-fi channel Dust and the USC School of Cinematic Arts are partnering for a showcase of student short films that will include a vintage artifact — the 1996 student short made by Rian Johnson, the future writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the 2017 epic that made more than $1.3 billion in worldwide box…

An elite group of film directors have appealed directly to Warner Bros Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich to try and save FilmStruck, the subscription streaming service that offers indie and prestige titles that are part of the Criterion Collection. This after WarnerMedia said it would shutter the service at the end…

EXCLUSIVE: Don Johnson is close to joining Media Rights Capital’s Rian Johnson murder mystery whodunit Knives Out. We hear the deal is nearly done, and the actor’s schedule is being figured out as he’s currently shooting HBO’s Damon Lindelof series Watchmen.
The Django Unchained and Miami Vice actor joins a growing…

EXCLUSIVE: As one door seemingly closes, another looks to be opening. I understand from sources that Captain America star Chris Evans is joining Daniel Craig in Rian Johnson’s red-hot murder mystery movie Knives Out.
The casting bolsters the project’s status as one of the hottest in the works at the moment and…

EXCLUSIVE: In what sets a high bar for the biggest deal at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival, Media Rights Capital has acquired world rights to Knives Out, a contemporary murder mystery that will star Daniel Craig as a detective assigned to solve the crime, with Rian Johnson directing.
The film is now fully financed and…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that will surely swing some of the focus from awards season launches to the acquisitions market at this week’s Toronto International Film Festival, U.S. and foreign distributors will be bidding for Knives Out, a contemporary murder mystery that will star Daniel Craig as a detective assigned to…

After director James Gunn’s unceremonious ouster from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise last week as a result of controversial tweets buried in his timeline that were unearthed by alt-right journalists, Rian Johnson’s decision to delete some 20,000 of his old tweets posted before this January has sent online…

With the many Instagram, Twitter and Facebook trolls lurking in the shadows, the world of social media can turn into trash really fast. That’s why Kelly Marie Tran decided to take matters into her own hands and delete all of her posts on Instagram in the wake of the sexist and racist remarks she has received since…